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Heft
Arthur, a former academic who weighs 550 pounds, hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away, in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel is navigating his life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career―if he can untangle himself from his family drama. The link between this unlikely pair is Kel's mother, Charlene, a former student of Arthur's. After nearly two decades of silence, it is Charlene’s unexpected phone call to Arthur―a plea for help―that jostles them into action.
Just Watch Me
A master thief and expert in disguise targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent. The bad guy teams up with a master forger named Monique and a team of expert thieves on a job that will make history.
Layover
Focuses on a successful traveling saleswoman, who decides to go on the lam from her life. A master of reinvention, she develops elaborate scams for sneaking into hotel rooms, alone or with a guest, and a passion for swimming in their pools.
The Emperor's Children
The story centers on a trio of entitled but unsuccessful NYC residents in their late 20s who orbit the life of a famous journalist in the months before and after the events of 9/11.
The Night Circus
In the 19th Century, two young prodigy illusionists are groomed to battle out their fathers' age-old rivalry in an enchanted circus created just for their competition. They complicate matters by falling in love.
The Wind in the Willows
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. Aswell as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gypsycaravans and motor cars and even into battle.
Under Another Name
Florence Darrow is a small-town striver who believes that she's destined to become a celebrated writer. When she stumbles onto an opportunity to become the assistant to "Maud Dixon", a celebrated—but completely anonymous—novelist of almost mythical status, Florence believes that the universe is finally providing her with her big chance. The arrangement comes with conditions—high secrecy, endless NDAs, living in an isolated house upstate—but to her, all this is little short of idyllic. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire and help along the much-promised second novel. All is crumbling villas, red sunsets and long, whisky-filled evening discussions… until Florence wakes up in a hospital, having narrowly survived a car crash. Either her world has just fallen apart, or she now has the greatest ever opportunity to live the life she believes pre-ordained for her.
Dear Jack
A mother deals with her son's drug overdose death by writing letters to him.
Hush Hush
16-year-old Nora Grey's life quickly changes when she meets Patch, a mysterious new bad boy in school. Her instincts tell her to stay away from him, but Nora can't help being drawn to his undeniable charm. As they get closer, Nora finds herself in dangerous inexplicable situations and begins to realize that Patch is actually a fallen angel with harmful intentions.
Lord of the Flies
A group of young female boarding school students end up stranded on an island and devolve into pre-pubescent savages.
Love Is a Gun
Story of notorious Depression-era criminal duo and lovers, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Nightb**ch
A woman is “thrown into the stay-at-home routine of raising a toddler in the suburbs, who slowly embraces the feral power deeply rooted in motherhood, as she becomes increasingly aware of the bizarre and undeniable signs that she may be turning into a canine.”
Location: US - California
Nine Lives
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones.
The Chocolate Money
The story is set in 1980s New York, centered on the relationship between a rich chocolate heiress and her precocious young daughter. The mother lives a free-wheeling, rock-star lifestyle, and her extravagant parties are legendary. Dazzled by her mother’s situation and constantly craving her attention, the daughter finds escape in reading beauty magazines and taking photos.
20,000 Leagues Under th...
Centers on the background of Captain Nemo as well as that of his prisoners aboard the Nautilus.
A Lady’s Guide To Selli...
Casey Pendergast is a "praise-seeking missile who navigates a tricky Twenty First Century career and the even trickier question of who she wants to be”.
Archer & Armstrong
18-year-old Obadiah Archer is confronted with the "Great Satan" he has been raised to combat for his entire life, only to discover that his enemy is actually a drunken immortal calling himself Armstrong who couldn't be less interested in bringing about the apocalypse Archer has been warned since childhood. His own parents and the cult they belong to, on the other hand, might have slightly less trustworthy ambitions.
Ashley's War
The U.S. Army Special Operations Command creates a pilot program that allows elite women soldiers on the battlefield with Green Berets and Army Rangers in Afghanistan in 2010. The unit, CST-2, brings together a hand-picked group of women from the Army, and that includes 1st Lieutenant Ashley White. White and her platoon mates bond over adversity. She becomes the first CST member killed in action. White's name is placed on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the Army Rangers she served with in the unit.
Choose Your Own Adventure
A series of individual stories, told in the second person, cover a variety of genres and offer branching narrative paths based on choices the reader makes about the protagonists' actions.